1. “We refuse to be anything but successful!”
Welcome to 3rd Grade Curriculum Night Austin Road Elementary ~
Presented by:
Ms. Dignan
Ms. Coleman
Ms. Moser
Success
Success
Success
Education
Passport to Success
“We refuse to be anything but successful!”

2. Curriculum Night Georgia Standards of Excellence
(English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies)
Homework Policy / Agenda
Third Grade Discipline Plan / S.O.A.R.
Attendance
Forms of communication
Parent Volunteers /Chaperones
Awards Criteria
Infinite Campus
Report Card

3. Achieving Success in Reading/Language Arts
In Reading /Language Arts, students will learn:
The conventions of standard English
How to apply word analysis skills to decode and read fluently
Strategies to better comprehend and understand different types of text
How to write different texts for various purposes (narrative, informational, and opinion pieces)
How to conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic
Reading comprehension will be measured using F&P (goal is Level P), MAP and CFA’s.

4. Achieving Success in Math
Number and Operations
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
- Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using multiple strategies to solve word problems
- Represent and compare fractions / equivalent fractions
Algebraic Reasoning
- Represent and solve problems using multiplication and division
- Fluently multiply and divide within 100
- Explain patterns in arithmetic
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes

5. Achieving Success in Math
Data Analysis
- Represent and interpret data (draw a pictograph, a bar graph and a line plot)
Measurement
- Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects
- Understand the concepts of area as it relates to multiplication
- Solve problems involving perimeters of polygons.
Students will be assessed using CFA’s and MAP

6. Achieving Success in Science
* Life Science
Habitats
Interdependence
* Earth Science
Rocks and Soil
Fossils
* Physical Science
Heat
Magnets

7. Achieving Success in Social Studies
Government / Civic Understanding
Economic
Geography
American Indians
Explorers

8. Homework Policy Read for a minimum 20 minutes daily
Homework is a key part of student success. It is an excellent way to preview and reinforce skills and concepts taught in the classroom.
Read for a minimum 20 minutes daily
Other assigned homework assignments / projects varying by classroom
Please sign agenda nightly
Google Classroom
Blendspace

9. Third Grade Discipline Plan
Safe
Organize
Accountable
Respectful
When positive behaviors are noticed throughout the building, faculty and staff will give the student’s SOAR card a hole punch. Students meeting the required number of punches at the end of the week will be rewarded with a treat.
Routines and rituals will be taught and followed daily to build a positive learning environment. However, if students do not follow the classroom rules, the following steps will be taken.  
1. Verbal Warning
2. Conference with teacher
3. Time out in the classroom
4. Time out in another classroom
5. Call home/Parent conference
6. Infinite Campus behavior referral

10. Third Grade Discipline Plan
Each teacher has a classroom management system in their classroom (moving clips, marbles).
Physical contact/ bullying, and disrespecting the teacher will not be tolerated.

11. Attendance
Students MUST be in class by 7:45 to be marked present. Students arriving after 7:45 must be checked in through the front office for check-in by parent/guardian. The breakfast line stops serving breakfast at 7:40 each morning.

12. Forms of Communication
Open communication between home and school is extremely vital to your child’s success! 
Remind/ / Phone call/Campus Messenger
Written notes in your child’s agenda or daily folder
Class Website
Conferences will be held each nine weeks
(student led, parent teacher, student led, parent teacher)

13. Parent Volunteers / Chaperones
In an effort to maintain the safety of all students at Austin Road Elementary School, all volunteers are required to have a background check by Henry County Schools. If you'd like to volunteer, chaperone a field trip, or have direct contact with the students, you will need to undergo a free background check.  This needs to be done as soon as possible.  It could take up to fourteen days before a background comes back.  If you wait to the event date is near to get this done, it is possible that it will not be back.  If this is the case, you would not be allowed to participate.  Please contact the Main Office at to complete the required and necessary paperwork to have your background check completed.  
* This was sent home in Wednesday folders last week.

14. Note: Grades will be updated every Tuesday by 12a.m.
Infinite Campus
Parents can view grades online via the Parent Portal on Infinite Campus.
If you haven’t already done so, please contact the front office to obtain login information to Parent Portal.
Note: Grades will be updated every Tuesday by 12a.m.

15. Awards Criteria
Two awards ceremonies will be held this year. The first one will be in January, and the second one will be May.
Please refer to the awards criteria handout. This handout will be made available to you in the near future.

16. Report Card
4’s = exceeding 3’s = meeting 2’s = progressing 1’s = emerging 0’s = critical need
Only the standards are listed on the report card.

17. Standardized State Assessment
Georgia Milestone Assessment
ELA and Math will be tested
Given in April
The test results can be used to assist with student’s placement for 4th grade
More information to come

18. Questions

19. Thank you for attending curriculum night!